The Australian political arena echoes with calls for the privatisation of health care institutions, the contracting-out of health care services and the introduction of various marketing strategies into hospital management. These calls are justified by asserting that the market, rather than the public sector, can provide better services, greater productivity and increased efficiency. The Nationa...

Organizations are beginning to experiment with the use of the “crowd” to complete tasks commonly performed by employees or designated agents. While “crowdsourcing” is growing, we know little about common uses of the crowd and the challenges such initiatives present. Findings from a grounded theory study reveal four common uses by established organizations: productivity, product/service innovati...

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a relatively new software delivery business model and has been one of the fastest growing segments of the information technology industry in recent years. In this study, we investigate the relationship between the SaaS software delivery model and the productivity of software vendors. We explore scale economies of pure-SaaS firms, non-SaaS firms, and mixed-SaaS fi...

© 2009 ETRI Journal, Volume 31, Number 3, June 2009 Component-based software reuse has been generally regarded as a promising approach to improving software productivity and quality within software development. However, progress in component-based software reuse has been slower than expected. Much of the software reuse literature points to the lack of software components that can maximize users...

The advent of technology as inputs in the realization of organizational productivity enhancement has prompted researchers to study the determinants that make certain the successful acceptance of new technologies especially information technology among users. Many studies have looked into framing variables from the existing established theories of technology user acceptance but fall short in int...

The social dynamics of individuals connected through the Internet is relevant to issues of productivity, viral marketing and the sorting out of useful ideas from the general chatter of a community. This talk will first describe a mechanism for automatically identifying communities of practice from email traffic within organizations as well as patterns in document access. Equally important is ho...

This article considers the role of the four Ps marketing mix model in social marketing, arguing that given reconfiguration of the marketing mix in the mainstream marketing discipline, and the characteristics of social marketing, a re-thought and re-tooled social marketing mix is required. A brief review of the four Ps marketing mix model in the mainstreammarketing and social marketing fields is...

Introduction The Joint Programme (JP) was designed as a pilot project to address the issues of the oil seeds sector indicated in the Master Plan. The JP worked to showcase development of an efficient oil seed value chain that would promote entrepreneurship, provide capital and services to farmers, raise demand for agricultural products and connect farmers with markets, addressing the production...

This paper focuses on the important role played by cooperatives in agriculture production and marketing Nepal. The evaluates of cooperatives, their contribution to agriculture, current policies that have paved way for development within cooperative sectors recommendations improving marketing. methodology employed includes a review existing literature policies, as well discussions with key infor...